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Senthil Balasubramanian authored
The hardware doesn't generate interrupts in some cases and so work around this by monitoring the TX status periodically and reset the chip if required. This behavior of the hardware not generating the TX interrupts can be noticed through ath9k debugfs interrupt statistics when heavy traffic is being sent from STA to AP. One can easily see this behavior when the STA is transmitting at a higher rates. The interrupt statistics in the debugfs interface clearly shows that only RX interrupts alone being generated and TX being stuck. TX should be monitored through a timer and reset the chip only when frames are queued to the hardware but TX interrupts are not generated for the same even after one second. Also, we shouldn't remove holding descriptor from AC queue if it happens to be the only descriptor and schedule TX aggregation regarless of queue depth as it improves scheduling of AMPDUs from software to hardware queue. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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